Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Introduction: Rural Modernity in Britain 1
6. Part I Networks
7. Chapter 1 Ringing the Changes: Thomas Hardy’s Communication Networks 17
8. Chapter 2 Change in the Village: Filming Rural Britain 33
9. Chapter 3 Electricity Comes to the Countryside: Visual Representations of a Connected Countryside in the Early Twentieth Century 50
10. Part II Landscapes
11. Chapter 4 Weighing Down the Landscape: The Quarry as a Site of Rural Modernity 67
12. Chapter 5 Windmills and Woodblocks: Agnes Miller Parker, Wood Engraving and the Popular Press in Interwar Britain 84
13. Chapter 6 Hiraeth and Ambiguous Pastorals: Wales, England and Rural Modernities between the Wars 103
14. Part III Communities
15. Chapter 7 The ‘Uncertainty of Our Climate’: Mary Kelly and the Rural Theatre 119
16. Chapter 8 The Spinster in Eden: Reclaiming Civilisation in Interwar British Rural Fiction 135
17. Chapter 9 Transformative Pastoral: Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scots Quair 149
18. Part IV Heritage
19. Chapter 10 Borderlands: Visual and Material Culture in the Interwar Anglo-Scottish Borders 165
20. Chapter 11 Beyond Portmeirion: The Architecture, Planning and Protests of Clough Williams-Ellis 187
21. Chapter 12 Celebrating England: ‘Heritage’ Writing and the Rural Novelist 207
22. Part V Wars
23. Chapter 13 Altered Countrysides: Paul Nash, David Jones and Eric Ravilious in Wartime 223
24. Chapter 14 Eden in Sussex: Atheist Moderns and the Berwick Church Murals 239
25. Chapter 15 Rural Modernity in a Time of Crisis: Preservation and Reform in the Books of B. T. Batsford 255
26. Notes on Contributors 270
27. Bibliography 274
28. Index 294